Insanity is a southern necessity…

Time

They say time is a precious commodity, one that shouldn’t be wasted, and I couldn’t agree more. Especially when it comes to spending time with young children.

I have five kids at home with the oldest being 12 and the youngest being three. With that many feet running around my house, I sometimes find it difficult to spend quality time with each… but I try. Ordinary things become special when it’s one on one.

My middle daughter likes to wake up at the crack of dawn—why, I don’t know. So she’s up when I’m up at 530am. She’s there when I fold the laundry, and she’s there when I get my oldest up for school. The tiny child snuggled in her pjs even watches quietly as I brew the coffee so that my husband can start his day. Not a sound does she make.

This morning I found myself sitting on the sofa next her in the dark, both of us wrapped in a blanket, staring out the window at the sunrise. It was beautiful; she was beautiful. This is our time together—just mother and daughter. And for a brief moment, nothing else mattered.

When she’s older and has kids of her own, I hope she looks back on these mornings as something special. Who knows? Maybe she’ll want to watch the sunrise with her kids too.

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That’s cool. My dughter is the early riser and we get to spend time with each other in the morning before i go to work and I love it. My oldest and I stay up later than everyone and my daughter and I get up before everyone.

About the crazy lady…

—I’m a middle aged Southern woman… deep south ‘Southern’. If I say or use the word ‘honey’ in a sentence (or in this case a review/comment ), It doesn’t mean I’m hitting on you. I’ve had many a person take this the wrong way. This word is simply just embedded in my vocabulary. Maybe hypnosis would help…

—I’m married…..happily married. I’ve been with my first and only husband now for almost 19years. Yes, I’m one of those people. And If one of us should ever become single, it’s because one of us took a shotgun to the other.

— We have five wonderful kids ( between the ages of 13 & 4) that I absolutely love and adore. Okay; so I may have mentioned once, maybe twice, that I wanted to auction them off on EBay. But they were driving me crazy those few days. You try living in a house with that many kids…

—I love photography. Who knows, one day I might make the move up to amateur photographer. It’s such a big step….

— I absolutely love to cook. What Southerner doesn’t? ‘Course if you were to ask my family, they would say that not everything I cook is fit for human consumption. It might give you consumption though….

— Lastly, I’m a stay at home mom…who the neighbors think is nutty as a fruit cake. So I might carry on converstations with my chickens…and yell at the birds stealing my pecans while dressed in my PJ’s. But I’ll have you know, I’ve only had the fire department over once since we’ve been in our new home. I was just tired of doing the laundry and thought it would be easier to just set fire to it all in the front yard and start over. I mean come on, who hasn’t done that?